BACKGROUND
La Fura dels Baus was commissioned to open the 51st edition of the Mérida Festival with a dramatized concert on the myth of Prometheus. The script for the final part of the performance focused on the moment when the centaur Chiron dies, willingly giving up his immortality in the form of a mantle to Prometheus. Chiron is released by death from the constant pain caused by the accidental wound inflicted by Heracles and Prometheus is deified receiving the gift of immortality.

TITLE
Infinite, represented by the mathematical symbol “∞” in the hand programme at the premiere, concentrates in one word the temporal image of immortality. It is that image of endless time upon which the composition is built.

MUSIC
Death and immortality have eternity in common. It seemed appropriate to use elements traditionally associated with the funeral march to characterise the transition to the other eternal condition, thus stressing the infinite abyss that opens in both circumstances. Two literary passages, one written by Virginia Woolf and the other by Aeschylus, inspired the audible presence of a continuous wave (mixed with an electroacoustic elaboration of the A tone) both at the introduction and end of the piece.